Health Law I

Health Law I - LAWN780

3 Credits

This course is designed to examine the laws that regulate the healthcare industry in the United States. The course will guide the introduction of health care law and regulation and include the following genres: 1. General introduction (federal vs state powers, police powers, admin/contracts/constitution/tort); 2. Professionalism (quality control. licensing and regulation, professional-patient relationship, liability for both health care professionals and health care institutions); 3. Public health (vaccines); 4. General life cycle (human subject research, medical aid in dying, life and death decision making, organ transplant and reproduction). This course is half of a two part series designed to form the foundation for much of the health law curriculum. It can be taken either before or after Health Law II but the foundation is not complete until both courses are complete for the concentration in health law. Alternatively, the course can be taken as a stand-alone elective for people not in the health law concentration.